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Flying from Paris to Accra takes six hours and 20 minutes, direct. But why fly when you can drive? One Ghanaian opted to take the road less traveled this summer, clocking 4,900 miles in just nine days. Why? For family and for country. Twenty-nine-year-old mechanical engineer Nicholas Afedi Donkoh drove all the way from his house in France to his hometown in Ghana to prove a point: that everyone deserves an adventure. “I just wanted the world to know that it’s not only white people who can go on such trips, but we blacks, too, can do that as well,”…

Governance expert, Professor Albert Puni has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to commission fresh enquiry into the allegation of corruption made against two Deputy Chiefs of Staff, Francis Asenso-Boakye and Samuel Abu Jinapor, by Kwame Asare Obeng, otherwise referred to as A-Plus. This according to the Dean of Graduate School at University of Professional Studies, Accra will not only bring clarity and “proper closure” to the graft allegations against two of his employees at the seat of Presidency  but also give meaning to the President’s mantra of eliminating corruption in his government. He was speaking to Bright Kwesi Asempa, host…

OmniBank Ghana Limited has introduced three new products to offer financial support to companies and institutions in the health, church and education sectors seeking to either expand or improve their institutions. Companies and businesses under those sectors requiring financial aid to undertake all forms of projects including infrastructure, buying of equipment and capacity building, could apply to the bank for a tailored facility at attractive rates. The products, PraizPack for churches, HealthPlus for healthcare institutions and EducationPlus for schools, were launched Thursday at the Bank’s annual SME Clinic that aims at building the capacity of business owners, managers of small…

Former president of the Ghana Journalists Association, Mrs. Gifty Affenyi-Dadzie, says journalists in the country now require a leadership that would exercise discretion its dealings to meet the expectations of media practitioners.  Speaking exclusively to 3News on Friday after voting in the National GJA elections, she argued Ghanaian journalists have now grown to be more vigilant and demanding, hence require a leadership that would ensure the Association thrives. “The GJA has grown from strength to strength and our members are now more anxious for vibrant leadership; leadership that will use discretion to bring us to another level,” she told 3News.…

Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero has been injured in a car crash in Amsterdam, hours after attending a concert. The Argentine, 29, was reported to be in a taxi on his way to the airport after watching singer Maluma perform. City said he “was in Holland on his day off and has sustained injuries”. Aguero is expected back in Manchester on Friday and will be examined by City’s medical team before the Premier League trip to Chelsea on Saturday. Police in Amsterdam confirmed to the BBC that two people were in a taxi which crashed in the De Boelelaan area…

The beauty of Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) general elections was nearly marred when one of the presidential candidates, had his name replaced with that of former president John Mahama on the voter’s list. The  candidate Johnnie Aryeetey was therefore turned away by the Electoral Commission officials when he showed up at the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation polling centre in Accra to cast his vote on Friday morning. Mr. Aryeetey is slugging it out with Lloyd Evans former president of the Institute of Financial and Economic Journalists and the incumbent GJA president Affail Monney for the presidential contest conducted every three years. The…

Deputy Communications Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Fred Agbenyo, has proposed a non-partisan investigations into conversation captured on a leaked tape between a musician and staunch member of the ruling New Patriotic Party, A Plus, and Deputy Director of the Criminal Investigations Department ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah. Mr. Agbenyo suggested, “can we get Parliament to get into this issue? Get a partisan committee into the issue. Get private persons. Get one or two person from the clergy. Get one or two journalists on board to investigate the issue and get us the facts and if there is…

A stampede at a Mumbai railway station during the morning rush hour has left 22 people dead and injured about 30, Indian officials report. The incident at Elphinstone station, which connects two of the city’s major local lines, was triggered by overcrowding and heavy rain, they said. The injured have been taken to a nearby hospital and senior railway officials are at the scene. The stampede was on a footbridge leading to the station. Railway spokesman Anil Saxena told reporters the covered bridge had been busy as large numbers of passengers who had been taking shelter from heavy rain tried…

Ghana Oil Company Limited (GOIL) has donated 70 specialised road barrier equipment to the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly to help it control traffic and assist in general road safety management within the metropolis. The donation was in response to appeals for support to help control traffic, unauthorized parking and general vehicular congestion in the twin city. GOIL’s Zonal Manager, West, Mr. Enoch Bimpong who presented the equipment to the Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly, Kobina Kurentsir,  underscored the importance GOIL attaches to safety and expressed the hope that it would assist the assembly to reduce congestion in the city. The Metropolitan Chief…

Seventy-six radio stations in Ghana are to pay in total, over a billion cedi in fines and penalties for committing what the country’s National Communications Authority (NCA) says are various infractions in their operational authorization permits. Radio station owners who failed to pay their application fees and or renew their application fees as well as those who failed to submit renewal documents are each fined GHC10,000 each day that the infraction persists. Those who failed to settle outstanding debts are to pay a fixed GHC100,000 each while owners who have failed to commence operations within two years of authorization  have…